Course Summary
Genealogy Online
Getting Started
What is genealogy? What sources of information are there? Where to start. Original and secondary records. This course shows you how to go about your search and lists the free websites where you can find the information you need.
Basic Information: Birth, Marriage And Death Records
Australia, U.K. and elsewhere.
Census And Other Records
Australia, U.K. and elsewhere. Cemeteries, Parish Registers, immigration, convicts and local history.
Special Data Collections
Cyndi's List, religious, regional, look-up exchanges, military, telephone books etc.
Finding Females In U.k. Databases
Find a spouse or a daughter's husband.
Parish Records In Australia And Scotland
Researching periods prior to civil registration.
Recording Your Genealogy
Genealogy software reviewed. Using Legacy Family Tree. Preserving documents.
Publishing And Sharing Your Information
On CD/DVD; printing charts of family trees; Writing Family History; publishing a book; create a website; standards for sharing information.
Ted was very helpful if we had any problems and was always willing to assist in sorting it out. He was very good at trying to locate people the students had trouble finding on overseas censuses or the like.